One arrived at Pointy’s house to be confronted by a garage full of splendiferous vehicles
including a fire engine red Porsche which does 0 to 345 km p/hr in 6 minutes & 57 seconds
over 20 kms.
In the 70s when your scribe was driving her 1962 Beetle, 6.57 minutes gave me time to
extract a piece of stick secreted under the driver’s seat, open the front bonnet and insert
the said stick in the petrol tank, to ascertain the petrol level from wetness of stick. If the
tank was full, I then lifted the back seat to see whether the old 6 volt battery system could
sustain a trip to the shops. 6.57 minutes got me from stationary to out of the garage. (Not
making this up, old Beetle’s didn’t have fuel gauges)
Cheesecake’s first car – a powder blue 1962 VW
At the other end of the vehicle evolutionary scale, when Pointy first went shopping for his
Porsche he was spoilt for choice.
Should he get a blonde one?
Should he buy second-hand?
Maybe a vintage one?
What if the Pope comes to Hawthorn?
Speaking of the Pope and Hawthorn, you’ll remember that a Hawthorn vicar once posted a
sign outside his church saying: “What would you do if God came to Hawthorn?” below
which someone scrawled: ”Shift Peter Hudson to Centre Half Forward”.
Returnees
NIckelBy, Lotsa Fun, Prickly
Walker’s Report
Swamp Rat – walk report- nice suburb, lots of arrows, 1880 Victorian mansions and new
houses, nice back streets 29/29.
Run Report
Back Beard – run report – lots of hills, beautiful use of traffic lights as a Hash Halt; the ghost
of Dermott Brereton wafted by as we ran through old Hawthorn footy ground. The pack was
condensed, then spread out, then coagulated or clotted, into a bunch of clots 28.5/29.
Special Runs
Certificates awarded to Spread On x50, and Swamp Rat X 50, congratulations!
Charges
Quick Lay mystery sergeant
- Cooch cos it’s his 2nd last run as GM.
- Back beard going away to KL for 9 months. GG reckons it’s so he can have a baby in
secret. - Big Ears, Klingon, Gameon, Spread On for being latecomers.
- Cheesecake X 567, Drag on X 191 (Swamp Rat was stand/sit in for Drag on)
- Some rambling charge brought by GG (GG thinks short and to-the-point is an African
country) charging Pointy with taking the trail past the premises of a very friendly lady
near Hawthorn Town Hall. Also charged for not having a drink stop. - Prince and Klingon charged for leaving stuff behind last week including most of
Klingon’s $12 schooner. - Game On charged Klingon for yelling at Spread On when trying to park.
- Back Beard, for watching a hash related video on his mobile phone, which he’s
posted to Lakeside Facebook page. - Pointy for needing to sharpen a knife in order to cut the elderly fruitcake.
- Mothball for not giving an A.
- Lotsa Fun for being distracted.
- 3K9, Cheesecake, Big Ears, Game On for not wearing hash gear.
- Lotsa for calling the RA boring.
- Prickly was once on X 151 which is a palindromic.
- Pointy lives at a palindromic address.
- Klingon for having palindromic OCD since he mentions it every week.
- Sweaty Box, and Big Ears for not using Game On’s hash name. (When charging Big
Ears for not remembering his {Game On’s} hash name, Game On couldn’t remember
Big Ears’ name – a rebound missed!
Scribe will award a prize for anyone who can guess what Pointy served up for dinner last
night. Prize is one of the white LSH tracksuit outfits which haber-dash has been unable to
sell holding onto due to its rarity.
*** You can see my scrunched-up VW in the foyer of the NGV till September.